Teen Charged With Attempted First-Degree Murder in Mid-Morning Twinbrook Metro Stabbing

A teenager from Silver Spring has been charged with attempted first-degree murder in a stabbing and robbery at the Twinbrook Metro station in the mid-morning hours last month, Metro Transit Police said in a news release Friday.

Anthony Jerome Jeffries, 15, is being charged as an adult. Another person, Rico Hector LeBLond, 18, of Germantown, was charged with first-degree assault and attempted robbery stemming from the same incident.

According to transit police, a man was robbed and stabbed in the torso on an access ramp just outside the station entrance at around 9:45 a.m. Oct. 10. Police said the man was seriously injured but has since been released from the hospital.

LeBLond and Jeffries were identified as suspects after a Montgomery County police officer recognized them from surveillance footage, which transit police tweeted to the public in October.

Court records Patch accessed online show Jeffries is being held without bail. A court date was scheduled for Dec. 6.

The Gazette reports that LeBlond was arrested on Halloween on theft charges and was later charged with the assault and attempted robbery. Bail was set at $55,000 for the separate incidents, the newspaper reports.